August 1
I have the whole glorious month of August to live “at home” before we leave for another country. We are getting ready, but we are also busy in doing house projects. In our old house, a large bookcase/media center had been built into the end wall of the front room, perhaps sometime in the late 1960’s or mid ’70s. To my eyes, it did not fit in the room as we want it to be. We had it taken out, and the wall restored, and the whole room painted. My favorite color for a room is a light peachy color. What’s yours?
That’s the color I chose, after flirting a short moment with purple. The dining room is deep red. I like dramatic color.
So, now everything is in the middle of the room, until the paint is cured enough to put things back, until we get new things, until we know where to put things, until we have the new baseboard done, until we clean, until we have a letup in the daily schedule.
Meanwhile, the days are still long, hot, but a bit cooler in the evening, the insect chorus is delightful, and the garden overflows its bounds. We’ve already eaten some roma tomatoes, cucumbers, and lots of snow peas. Life is good here and now.